Oral language of school-aged children born pretermaturely: a population-based analysis from Madeira Island, Portugal

IF 0.4 Q4 LINGUISTICS
A. Marques, Maria Emília Santos
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Abstract

Premature birth and low birth weight are very important factors in neurodevelopment. Current research in this population focuses on children born prematurely, with no underlying complications in the post-natal period, who are likely to develop specific disorders with their language development and consequently with their learning capabilities too. This study aims to analyse the oral language skills of prematurely born children in comparison to their school-aged peers. The children were assessed in the respective schools, 27 preterm children (16 under 32 weeks and 11 with 32 or more weeks of gestation) and 49 term paired by gender, age, and school year. Tests including simple and complex structures for assessing semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology were used, as well as a test of verbal memory. Preterm born children, regardless of their prematurity grade, showed significantly lower results than their peers, and more than a half of them, 52%, presented low scores in all language tests simultaneously, showing an important language deficit. In contrast, in the term born children group only 14% showed low scores simultaneously in all tests. Verbal memory ability proved to be lower than that of their term peers, regardless of the gestational age and birth weight of preterm children. As a result of this analysis we consider that the evaluation of the linguistic development of these children, even in cases of moderate to late prematurity, should be monitored in order to identify earlier the existence of deficits and prevent psychosocial and learning problems.
早产学龄儿童的口语:葡萄牙马德拉岛的一项基于人群的分析
早产和低出生体重是影响神经发育的重要因素。目前对这一人群的研究主要集中在早产的儿童身上,这些儿童在出生后没有潜在的并发症,他们很可能在语言发育方面出现特定的障碍,因此也会影响他们的学习能力。本研究旨在分析早产儿童与学龄儿童的口语能力。这些儿童分别在各自的学校接受评估,27名早产儿(16名妊娠32周以下,11名妊娠32周或以上)和49名按性别、年龄和学年配对的早产儿。测试包括简单和复杂的结构来评估语义、形态语法和音韵学,以及口头记忆的测试。无论早产年级如何,早产儿童的成绩都明显低于同龄儿童,超过一半(52%)的早产儿在所有语言测试中同时得分较低,表现出严重的语言缺陷。相比之下,在足月出生的孩子组中,只有14%的孩子在所有测试中同时得分较低。与胎龄和出生体重无关,早产儿的言语记忆能力比同龄早产儿低。根据这一分析,我们认为对这些儿童的语言发展进行评估,即使是在中度到晚期早产的情况下,也应该进行监测,以便更早地识别缺陷的存在,防止社会心理和学习问题。
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